Henry Austin Dobson Quotes

#1. The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.

Ron Brackin

#2. Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Henry Austin Dobson

#3. In merest prudence men should teach ...
That science ranks as monstrous things
Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings
E'en Angel's wings!
are fictions.

Henry Austin Dobson

#4. In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!

Henry Austin Dobson

#5. O, Love's but a dance,
Where Time plays the fiddle!
See the couples advance -
O, Love's but a dance!
A whisper, a glance,
"Shall we twirl down the middle?"
O, Love's but a dance,
Where Time plays the fiddle!

Henry Austin Dobson

#6. To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

Paul Feig

#7. Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
All things, in short, to which belong
The charm, the grace that Time
makes strong,
All these I prize, but (entre nous)
Old friends are best!

Henry Austin Dobson

#8. All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,
The coin, Tiberius.

Henry Austin Dobson

#9. Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.

Rich Cohen

#10. I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Henry Austin Dobson

#11. What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

Henry Austin Dobson

#12. Where does the hand become the wrist?
where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
razor's edge
between something and nothing, between
one and the other.

Simon Armitage

#13. Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

#14. No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#15. All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

Henry Austin Dobson

#16. Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

Henry Austin Dobson

#17. He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

Henry Austin Dobson

#18. Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

Henry Austin Dobson

#19. I think everybody thinks they're an amazing singer, but I'm one of those guys who realizes where his limitations are, and it's definitely with singing and dancing.

Clay Matthews III

#20. Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.
That's how the strong connection exists between you and me. It will be forever.

Emma Brynstein

#21. The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,
It wavers to a rose.

Henry Austin Dobson